My Bengali Mistress Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

My Bengali Mistress



As a passenger came I here alighting from a local passenger train
One darkening eve
At a local halt
And as a passenger shall I go away one day empty-handed,
My Bengali one who is of Kolkata,
My Kolkata, your kolkata, our Kolkata
Will stay here
And I shall go away
Without,
Everything hers,
Nothing mine,
The house and its belongings.

My mistress whom I know as my beloved,
It is sure,
Will not go with me,
As she was of here, is of and will of
Paschim Banga,
India's West Bengal, Kolkata,
As she cannot leave her family,
Her mother and father,
Brother and sister
And the place of her birth and schooling,
So much attached to it.

A girl so critical and sentimental,
Ismic and linguistic,
Self-centred and selfish,
Narrow and parochial,
Speaks she no doubt lyrically,
But is ironical and critical,
To criticize and complain her in-born nature and temperament
Which none can change it.

So much clever and intelligent,
She is as sly as a fox,
As non-vegetarian as a hyena,
Full of howls and growls,
Fish, eggs and meat almost daily
As she cannot without,
However intelligent and learned she is,
To torture, heckle and harass
Her nature,
To backbite and to do window-viewing.

Monday, August 25, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: art
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Pranab K Chakraborty 25 August 2014

PIRITO POTI SAMAJ-e jogajog karun. Apnaar kosto bujhte parchhi. Apnaar katha theke bujhlaam apnaar mistress akjon woman of learning. Apnio kobi. Evabe common-place-e bishoy take na anlei hoyto valo hoto. Tachhara divorce-er lawful assistance to nitei parten! ....

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